tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43735562390883887902018-02-18T06:49:07.436-06:00Brian Leiter's Nietzsche BlogThinking out loud about Nietzsche's philosophyBrian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-61772325395126294182018-01-27T17:46:00.004-06:002018-01-27T17:46:54.709-06:00The decline of European Journal of Philosophy as a Nietzsche venueIn thinking about significant Nietzsche publications for my last post, I was struck that none of the papers in EJP in recent years was even on my list of tentative candidates. In the 1990s and early-to-mid-2000s, many excellent Nietzsche-related papers appeared, but there's been a marked decline in quality lately; a couple should never have passed peer review at a mediocre journal. I'm not Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-15003235944612951202018-01-15T10:03:00.000-06:002018-01-15T13:17:12.155-06:0010 books and/or articles related to Nietzsche you should have read in the last ten yearsSince it's early 2018, I will treat the benchmark as 2007, but here are the books and/or articles I got the most from, and that anyone doing work on Nietzsche should have read and thought about seriously during the last decade. These are in alphabetical order.
Jessica Berry, Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2011). I was not ultimately persuaded by Berry'sBrian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-7304925321783372822017-11-22T15:10:00.002-06:002017-11-22T15:10:46.429-06:00Introduction to my forthcoming book, MORAL PSYCHOLOGY WITH NIETZSCHE I hope the book will be out with OUP in fall 2018. Here's the introduction, "Nietzsche's Naturalistic Moral Psychology," which gives an overview of the scope and aims of the volume.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-57035248678395532332017-06-17T16:45:00.002-06:002017-06-17T16:49:35.930-06:00The Nachlass and "The Will to Power," once again
Mazzino Montinari, Bernd Magnus, and (maybe?) R.J. Hollingdale all raised important doubts about the canonical status of the Nachlass material in the 1970s and 1980s. On the standard narrative, it appears Nietzsche wanted much of this
material destroyed, and it was only the intervention of others, independent of
Nietzsche, that resulted in the material being saved for posterity. More Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-58133971478837368232017-05-11T14:08:00.002-06:002017-05-11T14:08:13.148-06:00Book salesI just got a very detailed report from Routledge about sales of Nietzsche on Morality as of the end of 2016. The first edition (2002) has sold not quite 6,500 copies in all formats (though over 6,000 were in paperback unsurprisingly, the rest hardback or e-books). The second edition, which just came out in 2015, has sold almost 1,100 copies in all formats (with the most, about 730, in Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-58204915123007215532017-04-29T15:08:00.005-06:002017-04-29T15:08:56.832-06:00Call for Papers for ISNS conference in London, March 2018Details here.
Sorry for the dearth of posting as of late, I hope to have a bit more in the coming months.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-3554890040375429302016-12-19T19:28:00.002-06:002016-12-19T19:29:39.872-06:00Drochon in Nietzsche's politicsThis informative review by Andrew Huddleston (Birkbeck, London) brings out the crucial ambiguity between "politics" and "political philosophy" in Drochon's recent book. Nietzsche has a lot of views about political questions, he does not have, however, a political philosophy, and for philosophical reasons!Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-17420445294734291652016-03-10T19:40:00.003-06:002016-03-10T19:40:20.479-06:00Most cited articles on Nietzsche in English (according to Google Scholar)Corrections welcome in the comments; I'll update the list periodically. The bottom line is that articles on Nietzsche don't get cited a lot, certainly not as much as books!
1. Bernard Williams, "Nietzsche's Minimalist Moral Psychology" (1993), 99 citations
2. Raymond Geuss, "Nietzsche and Genealogy" (1994), 80 citations
3. Brian Leiter, "The Paradox of Fatalism and Self-Creation in Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-53959493486796405822015-12-21T08:26:00.002-06:002015-12-21T08:28:14.065-06:00Robert Holub's book on Nietzsche and anti-semitismI review it at the New Rambler. The book gets some remarkable endorsements on the dustjacket from historians, though historians, I fear, who didn't know much about Nietzsche and didn't read the book too carefully.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-39001145688109764682015-12-16T08:03:00.004-06:002015-12-16T08:03:59.860-06:00Call for papers for inaugural ISNS cnoference--new deadline, January 15, 2016Details here. We got about two dozen submissions right before the official deadline, but also several requests for more time. Those who submitted may resubmit. No refereeing will take place until after January 15.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-46407620842981029362015-09-16T15:38:00.003-06:002015-09-16T15:38:49.592-06:00"The Death of God and the Death of Morality"A new draft paper, here.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-90729383645715013772015-09-09T18:11:00.004-06:002015-09-09T18:13:18.372-06:00Sinhababu on Clark's collected papers on Nietzsche's ethics and politicsAn informative and judicious review of Maudemarie Clark's papers by Neil Sinhababu (NUS).Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-87714356754717485862015-08-29T17:26:00.003-06:002015-08-29T17:46:47.637-06:00Huddleston on "Nietzsche's Meta-Axiology: Against the Sceptical Readings"This interesting paper appeared in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 22 (2014): 322-342. The title is a play on my paper "Nietzsche's Metaethics: Against the Privilege Readings," European Journal of Philosophy 8 (2000): 277-297 (hereafter my "EJP paper"), and Huddleston's main target are my different accounts of Nietzsche's anti-realism about value. (My thinking about Huddleston'sBrian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-31166037689377827942015-07-27T10:32:00.001-06:002015-07-27T10:32:11.876-06:00Help sought: passages in which Nietzsche describes guilt as "useful" or "rational"Ken Gemes (Birkbeck) writes:
I am trying
to argue that while Nietzsche rejects what I call existential guilt/shame (that
is guilt/shame that comes from experiencing one’s very nature as a violation of
religious or other norms/ideals) he sometimes finds ordinary guilt to be
rational and/or useful. For instance in GM II 24 he seems to suggest it
would be useful if we could have ordinary guiltBrian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-46037884927011105842015-07-22T15:33:00.003-06:002015-07-22T15:33:37.683-06:00A review of Emden's "Nietzsche's Naturalism" (Cambridge, 2014)Here.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-30108461455541492562015-07-15T19:21:00.003-06:002015-07-15T19:21:21.105-06:00International Society for Nietzsche Studies
I'm very pleased to announce an exciting new scholarly initiative, the International Society for Nietzsche
Studies. The inaugural conference will be at the University of Bonn in late
June 2016, and a Call for Papers will be issued soon; Bonn will be able to offer
financial support to grad students or non-tenure-stream faculty whose papers are
accepted. All conference papers will appear in Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-57947730987013788082015-06-05T19:55:00.001-06:002015-06-06T09:45:31.925-06:00BGE 37...and now updated with further thoughts on BGE 37Once again, for my own benefit (and those of any readers), I'd like to record some interesting insights that emerged from the Nietzsche reading group over our last couple of meetings. PhD students participating were Garrett Allen, Kate Andrews, Dusty Dallmann, Tes Davison, and Joshua Fox. Mistakes and foolishnesss should be attributed to me, the insights came from the PhD students and my Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-75874422764042215562015-04-26T16:43:00.000-06:002015-04-26T16:47:12.965-06:00BGE 9, 12 and 13: the Stoic mistake, and the doctrine that life is will to powerI want to record some interesting insights that emerged from a fruitful discussion at our Nietzsche reading group on Friday; participating in the discussion were, besides me, PhD students Kate Andrews, Dusty Dallmann, Tes Davison, and Joshua Fox.
Let's start with section 9, which mocks the Stoic claim to live "according to nature," accusing the Stoics of, in effect, projecting their values Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-66749283638804284892015-03-03T20:36:00.003-06:002015-03-03T20:36:38.250-06:00Nietzsche in the Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy (forthcoming)I was very pleased that the editors chose to include a piece on Nietzsche in the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy. The piece was written by Daniel Telech, a PhD student here, with some help from me; we're hopeful it will help to make Nietzsche an even more central part of these discussions.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-22844878180590778812014-10-29T16:02:00.002-06:002014-10-29T16:05:29.814-06:00More on Tom Stern's sneering review of The Oxford Handbook of NietzscheTim Crane (Cambridge), the TLS philosophy editor, has put my original letter about the review and the reply by Stern's colleague Sebastian Gardner on-line here. I sent a follow-up letter, I'm not sure if TLS has published it, but here it is for those following the back-and-forth:
To the editors:
Sebastian Gardner’s defense (Sept. 18) of his
colleague Tom Stern’s sneering review of The Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-12936527971576590322014-09-04T15:52:00.000-06:002014-09-15T10:40:05.502-06:00Where to go to study Nietzsche, 2014 editionThe last version was 2012, so it warrants some updating given changes in the interim (and also some of the useful comments on the last version). The recommendations are premised on three assumptions about what is needed to do good PhD work on Nietzsche: (1) a strong, general philosophical education; (2) good Nietzsche scholars to supervise the work; and (3) a philosophical environment in which Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-23995246363051225452014-09-04T15:03:00.001-06:002017-06-22T11:19:05.390-06:00Tom Stern's silly review of the Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche in the September 3 TLS
London has long been a lively place for Nietzsche studies (with Ken Gemes and now Andrew Huddleston at Birkbeck, Sebastian Gardner and Mark Kalderon at UCL, as well as Daniel Came and Peter Kail not far away to the north, and Christopher Janaway and others not far away to the south), so it's a bit surprising that Tom Stern, who also teaches at UCL and professes a scholarly interest in Nietzsche,Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-72374458948874372052014-08-19T17:54:00.000-06:002014-08-19T17:54:39.025-06:00Nietzsche on Morality, 2nd editionThe proofs have been fully corrected (twice), and the new index delivered (thanks to excellent work by Daniel Telech, one of the wonderful PhD students here). I hope the 2nd edition will be available in October or November.
Up next: some comments on an interesting paper by Andrew Huddleston (Birkbeck) in BJHP.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-81809019653123231942014-06-02T10:20:00.001-06:002014-06-02T10:20:13.316-06:00Some empirical evidence for a Nietzschean hypothesis about belief in free willHere.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-82228527951226359712014-05-12T14:42:00.000-06:002014-05-12T14:42:14.363-06:00Dirk Johnson on Nietzsche's alleged anti-DarwinismSeveral years ago, prompted by a review by Paul Loeb, I took a look at Dirk Johnson's book Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Johnson is a Germanic studies scholar at Hampden-Sydney College, and the book is generally quite disappointing from a philosophical point of view. In any case, I never got around to writing up my thoughts about the book, but prompted by a Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com7